Agent Laurie McLean offers great advice about how to understand the readers of the young adult market so you can be successful in your writing work for this growing market.

Author Luke Dumas discusses how his lifelong love of dinosaurs inspired him to write his new novel, THE PALEONTOLOGIST. For more on this author visit https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Luke-Dumas/189198799 .

What gets you writing? Author David Wilkinson talks about how he finds motivation and inspiration when things seem fairly chaotic. Click here to play this audio clip

Agent Kimberley Cameron offers advice for authors on how to work well with agents. It's a good reminder that writing and publishing is a business that should be approached professionally.

Agent Kimberley Cameron offers advice for authors on how to work well with agents. It's a good reminder that writing and publishing is a business that should be approached professionally. Click here to play this audio clip

Author, travel writer and workshop speaker Nick O'Connell shares how he expresses imagery and emotion in unique ways while writing about travel. Click here to play this audio clip

Liza Palmer, bestselling author of More Like Her, A Field Guide for Burying Your Parents, tells us how writing short stories helped to build her confidence as a novelist. Click here to play this audio clip

Getting started with any writing project can be challenge for many authors. Jillian Lauren, bestselling author of Some Girls, shares her process and how she focuses on being available for the experience. Click here to play this audio clip

Our favorite stories have a well-crafted structure and contain common elements. We think of writing as an art, but does it have elements of math and science? Elaine Ash thinks so. Ash, author, editor, and book coach, shares her research on structure...

Bestselling author, Sara Paretsky, talks about the unconventional process she takes to creating her popular novels. No two writers create in the same way, and some people have a clean smooth process where one step logically follows the other. Some...